On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:52:15 -0500, Amy Guskin
 wrote:

>>> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:15:43 -0500, Jan wrote
>(in article ):
>
>> In article ,
Charlie E. says...
>>> 
>>> On 18 Dec 2009 15:17:52 -0800, Jan  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Yeah, I know that SDCC is huge.  I like it a lot and
there's no doubt that 
>>>> it's
>>>> an excellent entertainment, well run.  But, c'mon now...
>>>> 
>>>> They've already sold out of all 4-day passes (in
November!) and they put 
>>>> one-day
>>>> passes on sale this week and Saturday is already sold out.
And how many 
>>>> guests
>>>> have they announced so far?  Nineteen.
>>>> 
>>>> I don't know what they're thinking except perhaps to add
pressure for fans 
>>>> to
>>>> attend their other shows but I don't think much of this
latest way of doing
>>>> things at all.
>>>> 
>>>> Jan
>>> 
>>> They just opened the one day passes on Tuesday, so they started
>>> selling out really fast.  I still have a bad feeling about this.  Are
>>> they really put up ALL the tickets, and they have already sold out? Or
>>> are they only selling part of the tickets now, and will have the rest
>>> available later?  Can you imagine Warner's finding out that they can't
>>> send their folks to SDCC because they are all sold out?
>>> 
>>> Charlie
>>> 
>> 
>> I think that that's probably a different form of registration,
though I don't
>> know for sure.  WB and the like would be exhibitors, wouldn't they?
>> 
>> As for selling everything, I don't see any indication that they're not 
>selling
>> out completely.  Last year they did hold some auctions for memberships of
>> various types just before the show that I figured were refunded memberships.
>> 
>> Guess I'm just not a dedicated enough con-goer.  I want to at least see a
>> sampling of guests before I book airfare across the country.  Especially for
>> something over half a year away.  What's next?  They'll start selling 2011
>> memberships as soon as 2010 sells out? <<
>
>What I don't understand is why you're blaming Comic-Con that the tickets are 
>selling out.  I thought maybe I was missing some key detail, like they were 
>holding back big blocks of tickets arbitrarily.  Is that it?
>
>Amy

Hi Amy,
That is the real question.  Now, it could be that 100,000 people were
just wating for them to put them on line, and bought them up
immediately.  However, knowing people, it amazes me that THAT many of
them had their acts together to purchase something like this early...
;-)

Charlie
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